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• Excess copper levels giving rise to mortality in cows

  Visited a farm in County Derry where the farmland is below sea level and there are great imbalances with cobalt, copper and litenum in the soils and very high aluminum. These farmers had undertaken to supply extra copper in the diet to effectively flood... Posted Nov 12 2010, 10:51 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: copper deficiency, soils, mortality [Edit Tags]

• Copper deficiency

  With a client outside Mullingar, who had an extremely high empty rate among his cows in a large dairy herd of over 200 cows. 35% of them empty. Discussion with the client revealed that there was a very severe problem with cooper deficiency on the farm... Posted Oct 02 2010, 05:48 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: IBR, copper deficiency, infertility [Edit Tags]

• Copper deficiency in cows

  Visited a farm in County Limerick yesterday on a pre breed reproductive scan. 90% of the cows were cycling although BCS was low. The client claimed that the cows had improved dramatically in the pst 3 weeks in terms of Body Condition score. This would... Posted Apr 22 2010, 11:03 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: breeding, copper deficiency, pre breed scan, bcs [Edit Tags]